Solar eclipse of March 7, 1951
| Solar eclipse of March 7, 1951 | |
|---|---|
 Map | |
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.242 |
| Magnitude | 0.9896 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 59 sec (0 m 59 s) |
| Coordinates | 17°42′S 123°30′W / 17.7°S 123.5°W |
| Max. width of band | 38 km (24 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 20:53:40 |
| References | |
| Saros | 129 (48 of 80) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9400 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 7, 1951. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses of 1950-1953
Each member in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |||
| 119 |  March 18, 1950 Annular |
124 |  September 12, 1950 Total | |||
| 129 | March 7, 1951 Annular |
134 |  September 1, 1951 Annular | |||
| 139 |  February 25, 1952 Total |
144 |  August 20, 1952 Annular | |||
| 149 |  February 14, 1953 Partial |
154 |  August 9, 1953 Partial | |||
| Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953 belongs to the next lunar year set | ||||||
Saros 129
It is a part of Saros cycle 129, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 80 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on October 3, 1103. It contains annular eclipses on May 6, 1464 through March 18, 1969, hybrid eclipses on April 8, 2005 and April 20, 2023 and total eclipses from April 30, 2041 through July 26, 2185. The series ends at member 80 as a partial eclipse on February 21, 2528. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 43 seconds on June 25, 2131 .[1]
Series members 46-56 occur between 1901 and 2100:
| 46 | 47 | 48 |
|---|---|---|
 February 14, 1915 |
 February 24, 1933 |
March 7, 1951 |
| 49 | 50 | 51 |
 March 18, 1969 |
 March 29, 1987 |
 April 8, 2005 |
| 52 | 53 | 54 |
 April 20, 2023 |
 April 30, 2041 |
 May 11, 2059 |
| 55 | 56 | |
 May 22, 2077 |
 June 2, 2095 |
Metonic series
The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days).
This series has 21 eclipse events between July 31, 1924 and July 31, 2000.
| July 31-Aug 1 | May 19-20 | March 7 | December 24-25 | October 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 115 | 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 |
 July 31, 1924 |
 May 19, 1928 |
 March 7, 1932 |
 December 25, 1935 |
 October 12, 1939 |
| 125 | 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 |
 August 1, 1943 |
 May 20, 1947 |
March 7, 1951 |
 December 25, 1954 |
 October 12, 1958 |
| 135 | 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 |
 July 31, 1962 |
 May 20, 1966 |
 March 7, 1970 |
 December 24, 1973 |
 October 12, 1977 |
| 145 | 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 |
 July 31, 1981 |
 May 19, 1985 |
 March 7, 1989 |
 December 24, 1992 |
 October 12, 1996 |
| 155 | ||||
 July 31, 2000 |
Notes
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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